Labor If the myth of tech over the past decade has been one of constant innovation, algorithmic scale, and new products and devices that “simply work,” the truth is that all of those illusions were made possible by the obfuscation of labor: the contract content moderators who sanitize the feeds of … …
… That means you can upload reference images of characters or environments and give them a name, so you can tell Firefly to generate a scene in “Charlie’s bedroom” without laboriously typing out prompt descriptions each time and hoping the chatbot will stick to the same design. …
… Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki famously called AI “an insult to life itself,” and labor unions representing animators from multiple countries organized a protest against generative AI at the 2025 Annecy Animation Film Festival. …
… That’s layered on top of real-life experiences of job loss due to AI, plus more existential concern about the world AI will create. “Take any labor movement that has been potentially rightly concerned about disruption and change, and then supercharge that with the AI apocalypse, and then supercharg… …
… In the 1800s, when farm laborers were sent into the workforce in the Midwest, they had a basic education that made them trainable for factory work. …
… The company started a long time ago as Underwriters Laboratories. …
… Prediction has been a key part of film development since the birth of Hollywood, but that labor has traditionally been performed by human workers who have a nuanced understanding of audiences. …
… Pope Leo XIV is clearly thinking about the digital information ecosystem: he said he chose his papal name in part due to developments in AI “that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor.” Will the pope weigh in on SEO next? …
… But none of Trump Mobile’s outlandish announcements were as bold as the claim that the phone would be “designed and built in the United States.” The US has next to no phone manufacturing infrastructure, few engineers with the required expertise, and little of the affordable, flexible mass labor tha… …
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